On 13/05/2013 9:04 p.m., babajaga wrote:
> Good idea.
> It should not be too complicated to modify "storeUfsWrite"/"storeUfsRead"
> for example to include some type of compression.
> However, question is, how effective it would be, as there are many graphic
> file types, not easily compressable. So it would result in a lot of wasted
> CPU cycles.
>
> A simpler solution might be the usage of a compressing proxy on top of
> squid. So squid will cache compressed files in all FS available, without any
> patches.
The simplest way to test that is to compare Squid caching to a regular
filesystem (ext3, ext4, reiserfs, XFS) versus to one which compresses
its files (ZFS, Brtfs, SquashFS). Keepign in mind the way the FS is
compressing (per-inode, versus per-file).
Amos
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